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单词 pæon
释义 pæon|ˈpiːən|
Also 7–8 pæan.
[a. L. pæon, ad. Gr. παιών: see pæan.]
A metrical foot of four syllables, one long and three short, named, according to the position of the long syllable, a first, second, third, or fourth pæon.
1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Words, Pæon or Pæeon, the name of Apollo, and of a metricall foot in verse, of which Pæans are composed.1699Bentley Phal. 459 The Poet was constrain'd of mere necessity to use a Pæon instead of a Dactyl.1727–41Chambers Cycl., Paean or Paeon..so called, as commonly supposed, because appropriated to the hymn Pæan; though Quintilian derives the name from its inventor Pæon, a physician.1867R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (1870) 125/2 The antistrophic verse has a paeon..in the first place.
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